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Les Wexner money and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Just looking real quick during the break here at the
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  Speaker 1: architectural plans for two eighty North High Street.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen those, Zach or not.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nationwide building right now, and they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: converting this into apartments. I would live there in a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't afford it, but I would live there in
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  Speaker 1: a heartbeat if I could. That is just so cool,
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  Speaker 1: the high rise apartment things. It's nowhere i'd want to
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  Speaker 1: be with, you know, a young family. I just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. They're going to do some three bedroom units,
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  Speaker 1: but man, this looks sweet right there on North High Street,
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  Speaker 1: adjacent to the Piot Regency.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm liking the way this looks. I hope
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  Speaker 2: they develop it. They'll keep office spacing there too, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: Offices and then probably a maintenance storage floor and then
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  Speaker 1: apartments the rest of the way up.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty pratty thy people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I guess some of that Wexner money. If
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  Speaker 1: Wexner donated money to me to buy one of those, I'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be like, yeah, I am returning that, Which is now that.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking, now that you're talking about it, which is
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  Speaker 1: where I am right now. Seriously, you know it's all
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  Speaker 1: over the news. You can't get past it. The Wexner money,
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  Speaker 1: the political donations, the campaign contributions that have come in,
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  Speaker 1: and these politicians are they are trying to beat everybody
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  Speaker 1: else to the punch. I'm returning it, I'm donating it
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  Speaker 1: to charity, I'm making it disappear on whatever. I frankly
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  Speaker 1: and again not in any way, shape or form backing
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  Speaker 1: up Andy Ginther, He and I aren't a different plan here.
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  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't necessarily be inclined to throw away that
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  Speaker 1: money if I were a politician and I had a
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  Speaker 1: donation from Wexner or any of his affiliates. There have
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  Speaker 1: been accusations, there is no proof of anything yet, and
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  Speaker 1: we are a country that cherishes this concept of being
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  Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty. Affiliations with someone does not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: make you someone who who was involved in the rest
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  Speaker 1: of their life just because they worked for you or
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  Speaker 1: handled your money or whatever. And I just think the
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  Speaker 1: wise person would ride this out and see what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen before before making a decision like that. Or again,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's just me. A two on WTV and Harris,
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  Speaker 1: You're on sixth ten WTV at high.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing? Man? You know, you know it
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  Speaker 3: amazes me. Don't get me wrong, because I'm not a politician.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm here with George baby. Yet she donated money.
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  Speaker 3: Have something to do with the kids and something like
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  Speaker 3: get her in another politicians, but you know they really
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  Speaker 3: do with those polity correct answers. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: she didn't do it, but if I was a betting man,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't believe it that fast. She did that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Harris, I said, the same thing. You're an
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  Speaker 1: elected official. I would like to see proof of that
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  Speaker 1: donation being made.
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  Speaker 3: I loved that when I heard you say that Brown
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  Speaker 3: the beginners. Now if it was me, now I have
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  Speaker 3: I don't I should I say? Uh volunteered a couple
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  Speaker 3: of different agencies, right, and they told me and got
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  Speaker 3: off some money.
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  Speaker 2: I'm losing your hairs? Are you are you?
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry. If Lex works in there, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: he donating some money to me to the agency a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times, I was no reason why would I
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  Speaker 3: not keep the money for help whatever that you know,
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  Speaker 3: homeless stuff like that. And first of all, if he
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  Speaker 3: was to find out that he did do something wrong
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  Speaker 3: with uh, what's the guy's name, the trouble guy, the
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  Speaker 3: guy's dead man, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Epstein, right, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, believe if it was, how do I know that
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  Speaker 3: money didn't come from some legitimate business, because that's what
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  Speaker 3: it's supposed to be a great business man, So why
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  Speaker 3: would I get it back? Maybe I'm wrong and I'm
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  Speaker 3: hanging up and listening to you answer.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your Harris, thank you very much, and you
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  Speaker 1: bring a very good point. Actually, Now, if if let's say,
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  Speaker 1: if we find that somehow, some way rus Wexner or
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  Speaker 1: his people or whatever were complicit with Epstein and had
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  Speaker 1: some nasty things going on, if that turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be the case, and if he donated money to your
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit or whatever, like Harris, and you fed, you fed
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  Speaker 1: five hundred children that wouldn't have been fed if he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't made that donation. Do you scrape up funds to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of that money, to try to recoup whatever
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  Speaker 1: he gave you and then and then donated, or do
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  Speaker 1: you thank the Lord that some bright good things came
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  Speaker 1: out of the darkness a dirty person in their dirty deeds,
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  Speaker 1: benefited hungry children, or kept some single parent that was
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  Speaker 1: struggling in their house, helped and pay the rent, keep
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  Speaker 1: the gas on so the house wasn't frozen. Do you
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  Speaker 1: negate the positive value of that donation? And while you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep your organization afloat, find a way to
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  Speaker 1: raise funds just to pay back that money? Again, legitimate question,
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  Speaker 1: because Wexner's name is all over lots and lots of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You got a United Way grant where you think you're
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  Speaker 1: away gets their money from people like Les Wexner, Companies
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  Speaker 1: like the Limited are l brands, and you did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good with the money. You helped a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people with the money. Do you do you then
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  Speaker 1: say it wasn't worth it, It wasn't worth it to
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  Speaker 1: feed those hungry people because he was a bad guy.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you don't. I bet you don't. If you're
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  Speaker 1: on that high horse talking about what the politicians need
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  Speaker 1: to do, you better, you better look at your own
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  Speaker 1: house first. A two to one WTV and is the
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  Speaker 1: number Pete you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
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  Speaker 1: phone line?
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  Speaker 5: Sollo, Hey, so I agree with everything that you've said.
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  Speaker 5: I understand you know, no indictment, no evidence, But I
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  Speaker 5: have a really dumb question. Is it possible that the
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  Speaker 5: people who said that, or who said they're going to
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  Speaker 5: give the money back or or donate it to charities?
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me? Is it possible that they know stuff that
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  Speaker 5: we don't know?
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  Speaker 1: Not impossible at all, Not impossible at all. And if
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  Speaker 1: they know, why do they know? How close to what
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  Speaker 1: they know about?
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  Speaker 2: Were they.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 1: That's again, it's another question. It's not an accusation. It's
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  Speaker 1: just another question that has to be asked. You can't
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  Speaker 1: only ask half the questions, get all the answers.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, Pete.
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  Speaker 5: If they are, if they are privy to if they
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  Speaker 5: know more than we do, then I suppose maybe that's
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  Speaker 5: what led to their decision. But you know, we don't know,
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  Speaker 5: but I wouldn't be surprised if they know more than
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  Speaker 5: we do. I guess, let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Pete, thank you very much for your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the call. Eight two one nine eighty six.
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  Speaker 1: Peach lines open if you wanted eight two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob, you've been on hold the longest. Now you
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  Speaker 1: are on six ten WTVN.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 6: So uh Les West Well Les Westerner actually like donated
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  Speaker 6: about a three million dollar I'm out for a hospital
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  Speaker 6: bill for my like little sister when she's about eight.
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  Speaker 6: She had some of the bone arrow. But my question
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  Speaker 6: is why would lex Westerner donate all this money? I
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  Speaker 6: just don't understand. Why don't it to the children?
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of wealthy people donate lots of money,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm sure that a lot of it's
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  Speaker 1: to do good. There's also some tax benefits there. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you can, if you can do good,
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  Speaker 1: help people, get your name on a building and get
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  Speaker 1: a big tax right off of your charitable contributions, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good day.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that makes sense. But I just don't understand, like
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  Speaker 6: why you would since like all these accuations about like
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  Speaker 6: trafficking children and all.
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  Speaker 2: How is how's your sister doing?
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  Speaker 6: By the way, Uh, she's fine now, she was about
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  Speaker 6: to die, but she came.
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  Speaker 1: Through wonderful, wonderful, We'll see. That's what I'm saying. Light
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  Speaker 1: comes from the darkness sometimes and sometimes you just have
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  Speaker 1: to be thankful for the light part.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just uh, I would like make the act well,
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  Speaker 6: I would make the argument the left Westerner like, isn't
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  Speaker 6: a terrible guy? I mean, but I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I understand, Jacob. Thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 1: Even you know what, even the worst of people can
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  Speaker 1: do nice, decent things. We all know that even even
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  Speaker 1: terrible human beings occasionally do something nice. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying Wexner is a terrible human being that has yet
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  Speaker 1: to be established. I will give him the benefit of
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  Speaker 1: the doubt, just like I would anyone else innocent until
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  Speaker 1: proven guilty. But in Jacob's case, his little sister's okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: bone marrow transplant, lots of money. His little sister's okay,
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  Speaker 1: Now do you do you give that back? Do you
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  Speaker 1: give that back? Of course you don't. No reasonable person
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  Speaker 1: would A two one, nine eight six A two one
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  Speaker 1: WTV and and Steve you are on?
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Hi? Chuck?
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  Speaker 7: Thank you The previous gentlemen's all of them made an
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  Speaker 7: excellent point there. You know, I really don't like the
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  Speaker 7: big donors. I think it sways people's opinions and you know,
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  Speaker 7: voting and everything a lot. So you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 7: that's the only reason why I disliked that.
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  Speaker 5: I will say this too.
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  Speaker 7: My sister was anemic and she needed a blood transpute
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  Speaker 7: a transfusing.
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  Speaker 5: And my dad was a h.
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  Speaker 7: The religion.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I forgot it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the Jehovah's witness.
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  Speaker 7: Jehovah witness. He was a Jehovah witness too, And he
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  Speaker 7: changed his mind immediately. You know, he tried. And even
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  Speaker 7: though my aunt and one of my aunts and one
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  Speaker 7: of my uncles was trying to talk him out of it.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't.
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  Speaker 7: They didn't like that she was going to get a
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  Speaker 7: blood transfusion. But he did change his mind about it,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, I felt like it was the right
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  Speaker 7: thing to do. Like I say, the big donors, I
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  Speaker 7: just I don't know how I feel about them. After
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  Speaker 7: he list some of them guys, I truly understand. I
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  Speaker 7: agree with what they said, but man, they sure do
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  Speaker 7: you know when you throw money, you mad money around
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  Speaker 7: like that, it's just a lot of things. You know,
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  Speaker 7: it's not always good.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, and a lot of this money as you
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  Speaker 1: look at the figure Steve, the politicians, I mean something
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  Speaker 1: like Markuett figures in front of him between Abigail and Less.
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  Speaker 1: They like one hundred and some thousand dollars to get
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  Speaker 1: through over the years. But you'll also find, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred bucks or something like that to a particular candidate.
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  Speaker 1: So it's you know, it's it's it's not always real
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  Speaker 1: big money, but they always seem to have a presence.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've got a race where nobody's going to
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  Speaker 1: spend over fifty thousand dollars to win the race, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars donation is is pretty significant.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, like I say, listening to the other gentleman,
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  Speaker 7: I've kind of changed my mind about how I feel
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  Speaker 7: about it. I'm you know, you know, I guess I
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  Speaker 7: just didn't know enough about it, you know, admitted me.
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  Speaker 7: But I just, you know, big donors, I've had a
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  Speaker 7: lot of I just you know, I've heard a lot
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  Speaker 7: of bad things, and I guess maybe I need to
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  Speaker 7: get by that and you know, realize that they do
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  Speaker 7: a lot of good for people, and let's just you know,
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  Speaker 7: keep that at that.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate stee, thanks very much. And the big donors
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  Speaker 1: thing is, you know, and the packs and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I don't like it either. But that
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  Speaker 1: train is downhill with no breaks. We should have jumped
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  Speaker 1: in twenty five thirty years ago to do something about it,
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't. So now now packs the way you
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  Speaker 1: form a pack of political action committee and you have
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  Speaker 1: virtually endless, endless funds. When you're running for office, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: you are on sixten do w utvn?
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  Speaker 5: Hey?
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  Speaker 4: Just I want to say, you know, really, nobody knows
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  Speaker 4: for sure what Less was up to.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 4: Epstein was not a good associate. He got into a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things that people now wish ye hadn't been into.
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  Speaker 4: It remains to be seen. We'll know more in the
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  Speaker 4: next few months and we'll.
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  Speaker 5: Go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely market See that's the sign of a reasonable man.
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  Speaker 1: You wait to see before you decide. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: I ask of anybody. I appreciate you, buddy, thanks very
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  Speaker 1: much for the call. Before I get out of here,
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  Speaker 1: I need to pay homage to a hero. Yes, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: not you. Dalton McMillan, thirty three years of age. This
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  Speaker 1: story comes out of Marion, Ohio walking with a twelve
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  Speaker 1: year old girl family friend. They were going to I
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  Speaker 1: think a store, and they were walking along the train tracks. People,
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  Speaker 1: please don't do that. Stay the hell away from train tracks.
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  Speaker 1: Training comes by and somehow manages to grab them, snatch them,
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  Speaker 1: throw them under the train. This isn't his kid, he's
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  Speaker 1: a friend of the family. He's got a kid of
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  Speaker 1: his own, a ten year old, or he had train
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  Speaker 1: pulls them underneath. He's killed, grabbed his jacket and he
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  Speaker 1: was killed. He was killed because he was high enough
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  Speaker 1: for the train to grab his jacket. He was high
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  Speaker 1: enough for the train to grab his jacket because he
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  Speaker 1: was on top of that twelve year old girl trying
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  Speaker 1: to shield her. Thirty three year old Dalton McMillan out
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  Speaker 1: of Mary in Ohio. God bless you your family, and
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  Speaker 1: I would hope that I would hope that we could
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  Speaker 1: all be like Dalton when it comes to children. As
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  Speaker 1: we conclude this speculation about Wexner and Epstein and all
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  Speaker 1: the stories and oh the terrible, terrible speculation about children
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  Speaker 1: that went through that island and how they were used
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  Speaker 1: and abused and by.
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  Speaker 2: Whom and when and where and why. They are precious.
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  Speaker 2: They are precious. And this guy, this guy understood that
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  Speaker 2: lost his life protecting that child. And yes, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: the twelve year old is beaten up, but she survived.
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  Speaker 2: She is recovering now. God bless the memory of Dalton McMillan.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that I can be like him, if ever
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  Speaker 2: called upon to do so.